Growing up in a family where being taller than five-two is an accomplishment,
drinking milk was basically a sacred ritual. "It will make you grow big," they
said. "Your bones will be so strong," they said. For a long time I believed the
adults, so I drank milk regularly (also while being lactose intolerant because
nobody decided to say anything for ten years), but recently, I found that my
family was udder-ly wrong. While I was jumping from topic to topic, trying to
find something to write about for this summer-dragging assignment, I found numbers
of articles on "the benefits of drinking milk" as well as "reasons why you
shouldn't drink milk". After spending hours reading the articles, I found my
position. Despite what many people say about milk's benefits and how crucial it
is to our diet, it actually does more harm than good.
Up until high school, I was forced to drink a cup of milk as soon as I arrived
at my grandparents' house because, as mentioned previously, it was like a
sacred ritual. At the same time, though, I was also suffering from cystic acne,,
which is the kind of acne that comes from under the skin and causes an
intense amount of pain and scarring, but instead of looking at other possible
causes, my family blamed it on genetics. "You have your dad's skin," my mom claimed,
but there was a clear difference between his skin and mine. I noticed that my
pores weren't the size of moon craters, and my face never looked like someone dunked it
into the tub of olive oil, so I didn't fully believe her. Eventually I came to
accept the fact that my skin was just problematic, and that my pimples would
cause endless pain; however, things took a turn for the better
when I left for "the mother country" (or Vietnam), even though I had to use
disgusting (but much improved) bathrooms and breathed in motorcycle
exhaust for half of the time, my day-to-day life did not have a
significant change. On the other hand, my skin definitely did, even without my
usual skincare routine. Before I knew it my three weeks Vietnam were up and I
had to return to America. What also returned,
unfortunately, was my acne. It had only been one or two days before something
with milk was put into my system again, yet here I was, suffering with a huge and
painful bump right in between my eyebrows. I had already suspected some
sort of connection between my dairy intake and my acne while in Vietnam
because of the extra research I was doing for the topic, but this time it
finally hit me that milk was the cause of multiple problems, one of which was
the much loved acne. No wonder where dermatologists recommended dairy as the first
thing to go in a diet. "But when some people consume dairy, they don't have any
reactions," a person might mention. That maybe true, and those kinds of people are
pretty lucky... Or are they? Do they think about where most of the dairy actually
comes from? Do they know what's in their milk? Nowadays, milk isn't farmed by happy
farmers on happy farms. It's manufactured. Looking at the famous gallon jug with
the blue, red, and/or purple caps, the milk may appear as something simple, something
harmless. However these milks are known to cause
excess sebum production, weight gain (because of the reduced fat and increased
sugar content), and, my personal favorite, acne. Until I sat down with my dad, watched
a documentary about cow farms (which aren't really farms), and did some extra
research, I never knew why regular milk caused so many problems. As I dug deeper,
it turned out that this milk was full of harmful things, such as growth hormones,
antibiotics, and pus, just to generalize it, from all the cows that came from.
Instead of eating nice, green grass, as many would like to imagine, they are
taught to eat corn and hay to make them grow large, and, along with that, the cows
are injected with growth hormones (many known to mess with the liver and cause
acne and excess oil production) to get them to be able to produce more milk.
With so much going on around them, from being enclosed in tight spaces to
walking around in their own manure to having their calves snatched away from
them a day after birth, it is not surprising that many cows are stressed, so
they are injected with other chemicals to reduce the levels of stress hormones.
Not only are the animals in a constant state of stress, their health is also in
constant decline. Their udders, which are continuously being milked, become
irritated, inflamed, and infected, so antibiotics are also added to the list
of injections. Unfortunately, even though the chemicals run through the cows' systems to
keep the milk nice and going, they also end up in the milk and, ultimately, in us.
So what's that about milk being full of vitamins and minerals? Despite the "good
stuff" found in cow milk, the manufacturing process as well as the
milk itself causes issues with both the cows and the humans drinking the cow
milk, but the effects for humans are much more long-term, such as hormone-related
cancers and bone fragility. Whether the people choose to consume more or less
milk after looking at some of the harmful effects is their choice but, in the
end, the lifelong risks of breakouts, allergies, weight gain, and cancer will
always outweigh "a good source of calcium and vitamin A!"
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